Did you not notice the shit I have piled in front of said door because I DON'T USE THE DAMNED DOOR.
"Hey, would you mind moving all that stuff so we can enter the conference room unobtrusively?"
"Oh, see...that door doesn't go to the conference room."
"Yes, it does..."
"No, I know it *looks* like it does, but it really goes to...Hell."
"Hell?"
"It's a portal straight to Hell. At least I think it's Hell...might just be a hell-like parallel dimension. Anyway, no, the door does *not* go to the conference room. That's why I keep all that stuff piled in front of it; because once...
...somebody knocked."
Very few people have made the connection, and no one has had the nerve to ask before.
And I was also afraid that once people think they can come through, they'll be popping in, saying "oh, would you mind, I don't want to walk through the room to get to my seat"
And I was also afraid that once people think they can come through, they'll be popping in, saying "oh, would you mind, I don't want to walk through the room to get to my seat"
Oh, they will totally do this. Don't give a fucking inch.
I may have a lower-than-usual opinion of people today, but I know the above statement to be true.
Yeah, I let someone use the outer office for a coatroom for an event one weekend, came in to find that they'd moved furniture, etc. I told them that they needed to come in and move the desk back where it was supposed to be (they moved it about a foot, which makes using the door awkward if there's more than one person). Think that happened?
Vortex, can you put a large bookcase in front of that door in the future so that people forget you have it?
Scrappy, I wanted to say a big thank you again for your advice re: what to write to my chauvinist lecturer for mythological sources for art class. I just copy-pasted the "I felt the instructor was not open to interpretations of myth which were different that his own. His interpretations seemed to be uniformly conservative and biased against women in particular" remark you suggested, AIFG.
Finally. Phew.
So, thank you!
Shir, have you had any luck asking about that paper? Cause, if you can't get an introduction then having a Buffista librarian ask is totally a good way to go.
Incidentally, if you know of cases of people refusing to deal with individual academics on boycott grounds, please let me know. Because while I don't support an academic boycott at the moment, I know some who do, and that is not the way it is supposed to work. It is supposed to be an *institutional* both boycott of Israeli institutions, and a refusal let citizens of Israel take place in non-Israeli institutions. It is not supposed to be an individual to individual boycott. Now as I said, I don't think an academic boycott is particularly good idea at the moment. But the point here is that if somebody who is taking part in such a boycott is refusing to deal with individual Israelis this kind context, they are doing it wrong and should be called on it.
Note again this is separate issue from the boycott itself. While I think the boycott itself is wrong, or to be exact the wrong type of boycott, people who are sufficiently convinced to take part in it are probably not open to those arguments. But if they are carrying out the boycott improperly, extending it where it is not supposed to go, they might be persuaded or publicly shamed.
Wow. I felt kind of eh this morning. I knew I had a cold, suspected I'd coughed all night.
Now I feel like I've been run over by a truck. I'm going to bed.
